Making Love Quotes

Making Love Quotes by Marisha Pessl, Eloisa James, Harry Burns, Margaret Mead, Carole Maso, Lawrence Schiller and many others.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.
Marisha Pessl
Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It’s like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.
Eloisa James
Had my dream again where I’m making love, and the Olympic judges are watching. I’d nailed the compulsories, so this is it, the finals. I got a 9.8 from the Canadians, a perfect 10 from the Americans, and my mother, disguised as an East German judge, gave me a 5.6. Must have been the dismount.
Harry Burns
Love is the invention of a few high cultures … it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong marriage is exceedingly difficult, and only a few people can achieve it. I don’t believe in setting universal standards that a large proportion of people can’t reach.
Margaret Mead
After sex, after coffee, after everything there is to be said —
The hovering and beautiful alphabet as we form our first words after making love.
And somehow I’m still alive.
Carole Maso
I knew Marilyn over a two-year period. I met her first on a movie called ‘Let’s Make Love.’ I photographed her at that time on and off through the time of her death. I was 22 years old and she was 34 or 35.
Lawrence Schiller
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
Ann Landers
You look beautiful sitting there spitting at me like a she-cat. All I have to do is look at you, and I lust. I’m going to take you back to the hotel and take off that delectable dress and make love to you until you don’t have the energy to be mad at me anymore.” Ian Connelly, Marquis of Derne
Karen Robards
I`m down to Earth, a lover of music, making music and making love. I love to make people happy and I think I`m basically a good person … despite what you might read about me.
Duff McKagan
Don’t look over people’s shoulders. Look in their eyes. Don’t talk at your children. Take their faces in your hands and talk to them. Don’t make love to a body, make love to a person.
Leo Buscaglia
I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
Julia Cameron
But do we know how to make love stay?’ I can’t even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.
Tom Robbins
Nothing lasts forever, so what makes love the exception.
Andre Benjamin
In response to the question, ‘How do you know when you’re finished?’ Pollock replied, ‘How do you know when you’re finished making love?
Jackson Pollock
If you decide that you are making love to have a child then you are to prepare. Prepare physiologically, spiritually, and know that you have enough money to give him what you have to give him.
Laura Huxley
Chanting opens the heart and makes love flow within us.
Swami Muktananda
When you make love, you must be making love.
Woody Harrelson
This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
Yasmine Bleeth
It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.
Alexander Borodin
The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel – that’s all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.
F. Murray Abraham
The first thing I really enjoy is to make love, after comes the music.
Gianni Versace
Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, ‘How do you do it?’ But, hopefully, it is beautiful.
Francesco Clemente
I don’t know about making a passionate love story, even if it’s appealing for an audience to see a husband and wife make love on the screen.
Sandra Dee
Making love to a Negro isn’t frightening; sleeping with him is. Sleep is complete surrender. It’s more than nude; it’s naked. Anything can happen during the night, when reason sleeps.
Dany Laferriere
I love you because you’re the only person I want to make love to without any conditions and—and I love that you need me.
Simone Elkeles
I look at her wish we could go inside and make love on the couch. Dive inside each other. Take each other. Make each other. Nothing happens, though.
Markus Zusak
Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
Ellen Hopkins
the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.
David Benioff
Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn’t always enough.
Norman Mailer
When I play, I make love – it is the same thing.
Arthur Rubinstein
I caught the preacher making love to Sister Mary Lou. God’s gonna getcha for that.
Tammy Wynette
I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody.
Roberto Benigni
Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe.
Brother Dave Gardner
And here I am, instead of there. I’m sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I know I won’t be able to send, no matter how hard I try and how much I want to. How did that boy making love behind that shed become this man writing this letter at this table?
Jonathan Safran Foer
The cello looks like a woman to me. And, you know, the curves. And so I am in a way, and it’s funny to admit this, I am sexually attracted to the cello, the curves really get me. So as I watched him play, you know, Yo Yo Ma is sort of making love to a beautiful woman.
Sherman Alexie
All Nature’s wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature’s heart.
John Muir
Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope’s wooers, that make love to the waiting women.
Aristippus
Making love? It’s a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion — and purification.
Omar Sharif
I’ll come and make love to you at five o’clock. If I’m late, start without me.
Tallulah Bankhead
By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.
Carl Honore
Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior’s Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.
Tom Robbins
We still make love to organs and not people; that so far from realising that people are never more idiosyncratic, never more totally there when they make love, we re never more incommunicative, never more alone.
Germaine Greer
Selfish men make the best lovers. They’re prepared to invest in the women’s pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.
J. G. Ballard
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead.
Marilyn Monroe
There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
Anatole France
The life of a woman may be divided into three epochs; in the first she dreams of love, in the second she makes love in the third she regrets it.
Prosper of Aquitaine
The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.
Anais Nin
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love.
Ann Landers
Now I’m not making love to anyone’s wishes,
Only for that light I see
‘Cause when I’m dead and lowered low in my grave,
That’s gonna be the only thing that’s left of me.
Cat Stevens
Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order.
Steve Carell
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
Joseph Conrad
Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.
Andre Breton
She writhed between him and the door and he moved his mouth to her ear, whispering hoarsely, “Abbie, I’m going to take you to that bed and make love to you like you never imagined you’d be made love to again.
LaVyrle Spencer
If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.
Dennis Miller
He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
Jonathan Safran Foer
I think ‘Make love, not war’ might be the most profound statement that’s ever been made.
Jorja Fox
We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.
Richard Brautigan
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
Man Ray
Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.
Gao Xingjian
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
Raoul Vaneigem
I have been waiting for the devil living inside of me to stop making love to all the ghosts you left behind.
Tyler Kent
Making love to your wife is like shooting at sitting ducks.
Groucho Marx
The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
Phyllis Bottome
I said to my husband, ‘Why don’t you call out my name when we’re making love?’ He said, ‘I don’t want to wake you up.’
Joan Rivers
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
Kurt Vonnegut
As long as you remember the person who loved you, and whom you still love, then you’re making love endure.
Guillaume Musso
I’m gonna make love to you like fifteen men.
Rod Stewart
Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We’d make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)
Georgia O’Keeffe
The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race.
Walt Whitman
Making love to a woman is like buying real estate: location, location, location.
Carol Leifer
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love – a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.
Joan Miro
I am not saying renounce sex, I am saying transform it. It need not remain just biological: bring some spirituality to it. While making love, meditate too. While making love, be prayerful. Love should not be just a physical act; pour your soul into it.
Rajneesh
… it is always the men we won’t allow to make love to us, who take our characters away.
Ellen Buckingham Mathews
I was making love to my wife the other night, I looked up. She was on the phone.
Rodney Dangerfield
The perfect woman has an IQ of 150, wants to make love until 4 in the morning, then turns into a pizza!
David Lee Roth
I love cooking for men and making love with them’not just reproductive lovemaking but I like sex for the sake of freaking out with men.
Kola Boof
It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don’t make love till almost obliged.
Lord Byron
The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for I am not in the mood to kill again, and murder, for me, is very much tied to my mood, like making love. Even when it is necessary.
Christopher Pike
I was making love to this girl and she started crying. I said, “Are you going to hate yourself in the morning?” She said, “No, I hate myself now.”
Rodney Dangerfield
Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I,
Seeing that our footing on the Earth is brief-
Seeing that her multitudes sweep out to die
Mocking at all that passes their belief.
Herbert Trench
I didn’t understand that when you make love, you actually do MAKE love. Stir things. Affect each other. The breath that escapes from me is dazzled. He breathes it in with a gasp.
Jenny Downham
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
Zora Neale Hurston
Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
Rumi
Dying is like making love, except you don’t get naseous afterwards.
Woody Allen
Some people think it’s naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not.
Marianne Williamson
Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.
Catherine the Great
Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don’t stop when you’re tired; you stop when he’s tired.
Felix Rohatyn
Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic.
Philip Rieff
I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard’s study; because he would make love to me I am sending back the key; in his eye’s darkroom I can see my X-rayed heart, dissected body: I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard s study.
Sylvia Plath
It’s the right time of the night for making love.
Jennifer Warnes
Baby you should bring your best friend, then you should persuade her to let me get some sex in. Don’t get offended, baby, that’s just a suggestion
Drake
I’d rather be at home making love to my wife while my children are asleep.
Joe Biden
It’s all good when we making love, all I ask is don’t take our love for granted, it’s granted.
Lil Wayne
We have a very good head thing but we don’t make love.
Marc Bolan
When I’m playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it’s like really making love.
Emmanuelle Beart
In Europe, it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman – we make love with anyone we find attractive.
Marlene Dietrich
My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
Casey Affleck
She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like mad through a field of stubble, one shoe one, one shoe off, a man named Corn Cob pursuing her hotly. Wherever she is I am standing in complete darkness; her absence blots me out.
Henry Miller
Forget about sex. Just play first. Dance, sing, read to each other, breathe together – communicate. Don’t count on sex to be the door to intimacy. It’s the other way around: first develop intimacy skills. Then make love to enjoy them.
Margot Anand
I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn’t say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.
Sting
But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender.
Benedict Freedman
Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.
Van Morrison
I love my brother, I love my dad, actually love my mother as well, hope that’s ok. And I admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make.
Jeb Bush
Does this mean you made a decision? (Carlos) No, I took my clothes off and came in here to tell you I wasn’t going to make love with you. To use your words, ‘for someone so intelligent, you can be pretty dense.’ (Gabrielle)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Luciano Pavarotti
With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?
Rumi
Men would make love with any number of women … even total strangers, while females were selective. They were catering to the demands of one small egg. While males had millions of frantic sperms screaming: “Let us out, let us out!”.
Woody Allen
Being with Mary was different because…he wasn’t the only one who wanted to make love to her. The beast wanted her, too. The beast wanted out so it could take her.
J.R. Ward
You think that’s the solution to everything, don’t you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love… but I tell you this, something is coming, and we’d be fools to ignore it.” “When have I ever claimed not to be a fool?
Cassandra Clare
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Anais Nin
Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.
H. L. Mencken
It’s so tiring to make love to women, it takes forever. I’m too lazy to be a lesbian.
Camille Paglia
Don’t be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.
Dan Millman
Think about food on a full stomach and you find you don’t care about taste. Think of lust after making love, and you find you don’t care about sex. Therefore, if people always reflect on the regret they will feel afterward to forestall folly at the moment, they will be stable and will not err in action.
Zicheng Hong
Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, ‘What’s the matter, you can’t think of anybody either?’
Rodney Dangerfield
Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It’s already happening, and it’s hot!
Aasif Mandvi
You’re always cursing, you’re always praying and you’re always making love. It ain’t do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.
Carlos Santana
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
George Bernard Shaw
I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. Like the song ‘Love the One You’re With’; there is something to that. It’s not just make love to whomever you’re with, it’s just love whomever you’re with.
Bill Murray
One thing I’ve learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don’t feel it; there’s probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Norman Mailer
Women at my age they are making love, they are feeling sensual, they flirt, they have boyfriends, they have a sexual life. They are just not being represented in the movies.
Sonia Braga
Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.
Hermann Hesse
If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
Brigitte Bardot
On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can’t watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn’t make any sense, does it?
Sharon Tate
Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.
Oliver Sacks
Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.
Noel Coward
I want you to make love, not war, I know you’ve heard it before.
John Lennon
Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.
Mason Cooley
Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid… you should always be aiming for a top half finish
Ian Holloway
With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor
Jeffrey Archer
A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman–a married man needs only an excuse.
Helen Rowland
There’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
Billy Joel
Composing is like making love to the future.
Lukas Foss
Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.
Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
Love is an act of faith, not an exchange. Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side.
Paulo Coelho
I once had a man break up with me. He said I was using him because right after making love I would weigh myself.
Emily Levine
After a long day of trying, to make my songs pay, making love all day against the wall in the hallway.
Tupac Shakur
I’m leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky.
John Denver
The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
Ann Voskamp
Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even a single being, Good will follow. But the Noble One with compassionate heart for all mankind, generates abounding good.
Gautama Buddha
In the Sixties, the hippies said “Make love, not war,” and that was naive. But it might be less naive to say “Make music, not war,” in the sense that the people who create musical instruments are the same people who make up new weapons.
Jaron Lanier
The women used the music to get their men to relate to them better: “talk to me, tell me what’s on your mind.” Men used the music to get the girls in the mood to make love. So either way you had it, Barry White is the one artist who actually was in your bedroom with you at your most sacred, sensuous moment of your life.
Barry White
I saw him making love to you, you forgot to close the garage door.
Bob Dylan
If a man doesn’t know how to dance he doesn’t know how to make love, there I said it!
Craig Ferguson
Become one with eternity.
Become part of your environment.
Take off your clothes.
Forget yourself. Make love.
Self-destruction is the only
way to peace.
Yayoi Kusama
Passion begins where your bodies unite and ends where your souls dance. When your spirits can join together at the same time as your bodies become one, then all of you will be making love. There will be nothing left between you that is not love. This is sacred communion. This is ecstasy.
Barbara De Angelis
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
Barbara Kingsolver
Dancing is like making love. It has to be a harmony; it has to be about two bodies. When one is like, “I am the good one,” it doesn’t work.
Blanca Li
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
Charles Simic
There is not a big difference between life and taking pictures… You’re in the middle of life, you’re living, making love, eating, sleeping – and photography is part of it. And I don’t say this because I’m being romantic. I say this because that’s just the way it happens to be.
Anders Petersen
It’s time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb.
Conrad Aiken
Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.
Thomas Merton
Before we make love, my husband takes a pain killer.
Joan Rivers
Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.
Adam Sandler
It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.
Gary Shteyngart
I used to make love to Green Day’s music. But 9 minutes? I’m not Superman.
Doug Benson
‘T is sweet to think that where’er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear; And that when we ‘re far from the lips we love, We ‘ve but to make love to the lips we are near.
Charles Lamb
All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody’s embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket.
John Dos Passos
It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.
Ninon de L’Enclos
Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I’d choose the corn.
Sara Gruen
Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.
Voltaire
Let us clear a little space, And make Love a burial-place. He is dead, dear, as you see, And he wearies you and me.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Make love to me like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.
Buddy Wakefield
Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Love really makes the world go round, but sex makes love go round.
Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz
Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive.
Jeff Buckley
Will is a very interesting, unique man, and I’ll tell you why. He makes love like a woman. He loves to touch, massage and feel. He makes love like he’s in touch with himself, who he is. And he’s a very sensual, incredible lovemaker.
Jada Pinkett Smith
Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Evelyn: There’s nothing wrong with embracing one’s emotions. Brittany: Mom, You don’t just embrace your emotions, you make love to them hard-core.
Gena Showalter
It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can’t know it will be the last.
Joyce Carol Oates
Sex may be private in the way that you make love, but it’s not private in the context of the world we live in.
Amber Hollibaugh
Make love, take love, but you should give love. And try to live love.
George Harrison
People keep repeating that the main things are love and compassion. Certainly love and compassion are the main things, but it takes knowledge to make love and compassion fruitful. … It takes just a second to say ‘love’. But to acquire knowledge for the well-being and blessing of humanity requires an eternity.
H. P. Blavatsky
Make love your weapon to overcome any evil
Michael Jackson
The practice of any art demands more than ‘mere savoir faire’. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.
Henry Miller
I don’t think making love the new bottom line is naГЇve; I believe that thinking we can survive the next hundred years doing anything less, is naГЇve.
Marianne Williamson
I will follow you to the ends of the world.
Khaled Hosseini
A Consultant is a guy who knows 125 different ways to make love, but who doesn’t know any women.
Mark Russell
I make love to the beautiful Maria and you make love to your stick!
Santino Marella
A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?” he demanded. No, I thought. I won’t. I will not. But I did. “Very carefully,” I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought.
Diana Gabaldon
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
Rumi
If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you’re the love that I’ve looked for, come with me and escape.
Rupert Holmes
I won’t lie to you and make you believe what’s evil, is making love, and making friends, and meeting God your own way… the RIGHT way.
Phil Anselmo
Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? ‘Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.
Ninon de L’Enclos
No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love]
There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin
In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene
Only then I am human
Only then I am clean
Hozier
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
Cesare Pavese
Every day can’t be the best day
Do what you can right now, don’t hesitate
That’s why we try to make love and get paid
Take the bad with the good, now let’s play
Slug
When it comes to making love, I may not be the best, but I’m damn gouda.
Ryan Stiles
…I feel more alive when I’m writing than I do at any other time–except when I’m making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment–the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.
May Sarton
The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It’s that paradoxical response of joy and suffering.
Terry Tempest Williams
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It’s like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it’s different.
Arthur Rubinstein
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
Janis Joplin
You make love for the pleasure and the passion and for the love that two people have for each other. But then there is also this other thing. Are we going to make love to have a child? One has to be clear to do that.
Laura Huxley
A Polish man had his vasectomy done at Sears. Now when he makes love, the garage door goes up.
Henny Youngman
All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
Chuck Berry
A critic is a virgin who would teach Don Juan how to make love.
Tristan Bernard
The kids are saying ‘Make Love, Not War’,
and I’m beginning to think they’re right.
For war costs millions of dollars a day,
and love–just a few bucks a night!
Nipsey Russell
The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.
Patricia Briggs
To be naked or even making love in a scene to me is very important if this is a movie about a couple or sensuality. It’s a sort of moralism to think that this shouldn’t be seen in the film.
Sonia Braga
I don’t approve of open fires. You can’t think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.
Rex Stout
Pray with your woman, sing with your woman, play with your woman, dance with your woman, with no idea of sex.
Rajneesh
You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.
Aphra Behn
Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.
Leo Buscaglia
In My Secret Life” “I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. Can’t seem to loosen my grip On the past. And I miss you so much, there’s no one in sight. And we’re still making love In my secret life. I smile when I am angry, I cheat and I lie, I do what I have to do to get by, In my secret life.
Leonard Cohen
Scoring goals is like making love: everyone can do it, but nobody does it like me.
Alfredo Di Stefano
The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.
Alfred Kinsey
Cooking is like making love, you do it well, or you do not do it at all.
Harriet Van Horne
It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.
Jim Carrey
Drinking champagne after making love is like taking a bath in chilled pearls.
Anistatia R. Miller
If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed.
George MacDonald Fraser
Asking the front wheels of a car to do their normal job of steering while handling more than 170 is like asking a man to wire a plug while juggling. Penguins. While making love. To a beautiful woman while on fire, on stage. In front of the Queen. It’s all going to go wrong.
Jeremy Clarkson
When you’re connected to a source and to each other through conversation, through making love, through meditation, playing games with your kids, all that stuff, then your self-esteem’s going to go up.
Jack Canfield
If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I’d make love to it, then I’d smoke it.
George Burns
Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of in front of the television. Simply resisting the urge to hurry is free.
Carl Honore
All these years, I’ve been opening the window and making love to the world.
Kurt Vonnegut
Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.
David Levithan
Drop Pants, Not Bombs. Break Dance, Not Hearts. Draft Beer, Not People. Make LOVE, Not WAR.
Ashley Purdy
When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.
Barbara Cooper
Paint with joy – with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can’t cover the circus.
A. M. Rosenthal
The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
Anais Nin
How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.
Edward Abbey
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
Helen Rowland
Making love to a fat woman sure is a treat, because I’m here to tell you that meat hold heat.
Chick Willis
Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.
Paulo Coelho
When you’re dating, abstinence is a greater expression of love than making love, because you’re doing what’s best for your beloved, not just what feels good in the moment.
Jason Evert
I could not make a move without making love.
Miranda July
When they said “Make love, not war” at Woodstock, they never imagined that one would become as dangerous as the other.
Jay Leno
We pray with our hands and often communicate with them. We use them to eat, work, and make love. We employ them as marvelously sophisticated instruments of flexibility and strength, and when they are damaged, we anguish.
Keith L. Moore
I once walked in on my grandparents making love…And that’s why I don’t eat raisins.
Zach Galifianakis
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.
Ovid
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
Cesare Pavese
It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?
Jonathan Safran Foer
I would love to end the nuclear ambition of the Iranians without firing a shot, but you have to know who you’re talking to and what they actually want, this is North Korea in the making.
Lindsey Graham
We have to end the capitalist system. We have to make love our value. You are rich when you love and you are rich when you are giving away your time and what you have to help other people.
Patch Adams
You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.
Michael Connelly
Writing is like making love. Don’t worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
Isabel Allende
Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn’t necessary in a long-term relationship. Just as the first caress can lead to a change of heart, the first sentence, however tentative and awkward, can lead to a desire to go just a little further.
Julia Cameron
The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, ‘Who am I? Who are you? Why?
Madeleine L’Engle
A skirt is no obstacle to extemperaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.
Helen Lawrenson
My next door neighbor just had a pacemaker installed. They’re still working the bugs out, though. Every time he makes love, my garage door opens.
Bob Hope
Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it’s an exchange of blood, a total embrace – without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.
Joan Miro
Walking in the dark, seeing lovers do their thing. That’s the time, I feel like making love to you.
Roberta Flack
If I had a child, and I accidentally walked in on him seeing something, I’d rather he’d be seeing two people making love, than two people killing each other. USA in such a violent country, that I’d rather support sex!
Eva Mendes
If you make love with the divine now, in the next lifeyou will have the face of satisfied desire.
Kabir
Call you up in the middle of the night. It’s awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.
Billy Joel
Last week I told my wife, If you would learn to cook, I could fire the chef. She said, If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer.
Rodney Dangerfield
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
Heywood Broun
Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.
Susan Sarandon
What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.
Charles Baudelaire
We go to church buildings that still have a mortgage. Which means the bank owns God’s house. Which means that we go and make love to God in a house that Satan owns!
Eddie Long
All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, “Lie down.
Hugh Walpole
I don’t believe in hunches. Hunches are for dogs making love.
Amarillo Slim
It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.
Fulton J. Sheen
There are fewer ways of making love than they say, and more than one believes.
Renee Vivien
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
William Faulkner
Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree.
Jorge Valdano
To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It’s as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Don’t cook. Don’t clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum.
Joan Rivers
It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.
Ninon de L’Enclos
They just hate it when people make love. And then they’ll go to a fistfight where somebody’s really hurt and all covered with bloodand they’ll just love that. Or a war and stuff like that. They’re all mixed up and they’re trying to take it out on you so you get mixed up too.
Robert M. Pirsig
and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn’t I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? “To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
Ann Voskamp
There’s nothing more human than two people making love.
Victoria Abril
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
Rumi
When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
Andrea Dworkin
The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It’s a wonder that we don’t make love to every single person we meet.
Yoko Ono
If we could throw away the hate and make love last another day, don’t give up just for today, life would be so simple
Demi Lovato
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about Aids; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It’s a very sick society that rejects pleasure.
Marjane Satrapi
You can’t type what a lesbian is. We’re anything and everything. The one thing in common is that we make love to other women. So give up trying to limit us.
Amanda Bearse
I don’t make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.
Fred Astaire
When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were survivors. I’m sure that was very important in my life. My father snuck out from under the floorboards to make love to my mother. I can’t imagine why they kept me.
Christian Boltanski
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe
I could never pretend something I didn’t feel. I could never make love if I didn’t love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.
Marilyn Monroe
Make love like you have no secrets like you’ve never been left never been hurt like the world don’t owe you a single wretched thing.
Warsan Shire
When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed… Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.
Chogyam Trungpa
My wife ain’t gonna make love to me if I got no money!
Eddie Murphy
I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me…. Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I’m a boudoir singer.
Frank Sinatra
Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.
Cyril Connolly
a lot of brothers don’t understand. When it comes to making love, reciprocity is everything.
Pearl Cleage
If there is God, I thought…Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress.” “Oh…” “Tatiasha…isn’t it nice to know there is a God?
Paullina Simons
Men die, heroically or fruitlessly, but man carries on. In Israel it is the same: the farmer must till the fields, the young must make love, and the photographer must, I suppose, be ready to photograph it all.
Leonard Freed
I love you, Meg. I want to marry you. I want to sleep with you every night, make love with you, have kids. I want to fight together and work together and—just be together. Now are you going to keep standing there, staring at me, or could you put me out of my misery and say you still love me, at least a little?
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they’ll never get all the pennies out of the pot.
Armistead Maupin
Love was a delicious blend of warm and cold. There was comfort in making love. It solved no problems: but one could run away from problems.
Larry Niven
Do you know what happens when an Arabian woman dances? She does not dance: she protests, she loves, she cries, she makes love, she dreams, she goes away from her reality, to her own world, where love is really meant and she does not want to come back, because that is her reality.
Armand Nassery
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I don’t think when I make love.
Brigitte Bardot
We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter…. It’s the way friends make love to one another.
Annie Gottlieb
I don’t even like the word ‘relax’! If I have a partner and we make love a lot, then I’m in a very pure state of being.
Carolee Schneemann
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
Sherwood Anderson
Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly… He’s pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
Erica Jong
If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I’d watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.
Bobby Knight